Archive
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Webinars and Events
2nd Edition of The Political Economy of Ecological Change and Economic Security in the Global South
ConferenceJul 14–16, 2025
The interdisciplinary nature of the conference offers a platform to connect theoretical insights with practical solutions, fostering meaningful dialogue and collaboration to address urgent climate and socio-economic issues. The conference will be the second annual event with the Centre of South Asian Studies - University of Cambridge.
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Article
Tariff Turmoil and the Money Markets: Single Payer Insurance to the Rescue
Jun 2, 2025
In Treasury markets, there are no libertarians, only grateful recipients of single-payer insurance for ailing financial markets.
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Webinars and Events
The End of Globalization? With Paul Krugman
DiscussionMay 31, 2025
Four months of the Trump presidency have already changed the world as we knew it. How did we get here? What consequences have the tariffs had and will have? How will U.S.-European trade relations evolve? What about the confrontation with China?
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Article
Steering AI to Enhance Jobs and Prepare for Future Transformation
May 29, 2025
How to guide innovative AI efforts to increase labor demand and create better-paying jobs?
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Working Paper
Working PaperSteering Technological Progress
May 2025
We need a dual approach to AI: steer technology in the short term while building new systems for the long term.
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Video
The Economics of Being Seen
May 28, 2025
What does economic inequality look like when we account for gender identity, sexual orientation, and lived experience?
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Article
Wage Stagnation and Populism: A Comment on David Brooks and Noah Smith
May 27, 2025
Times have changed. Now we have David Brooks, of The New York Times, and economics blogger Noah Smith defending neoliberal globalization from the pincer movement of anti-trade populists from both the right and the left.
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Article
Rethinking Pharmaceutical Innovation Policy
May 19, 2025
Misaligned incentives account for many of the most troubling features of the pharmaceutical industry’s present practices and performance.
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Article
Europe’s Gas Roller Coaster
May 13, 2025
A new INET Working Paper by Yaroslav Melekh, James Dixon, Katrina Salmon, and Michael Grubb, interrogates the contradictions between fossil lock-in through LNG import capacity and overcontracting, and policy-driven demand reduction. Here is a summary of the paper’s main findings.
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Working Paper
Working PaperEuropean Natural Gas through the 2020s: the Decade of Extremes, Contradictions and Continuing Uncertainties
May 2025
This paper examines in detail the interrelationships between the EU’s concerns, its energy policies, and the resulting challenges and uncertainties facing European gas through the rest of the decade, and beyond.
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Article
They Looted Companies — Now They're Looting the Government
May 12, 2025
Economist William Lazonick reveals how the extraction model of American corporations has migrated from business to government.
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Article
Currency Wars, Social Class, and the Republican Dilemma Over Medicaid
May 8, 2025
Faced with a shrinking list of options to trim the budget, Republicans are now eyeing Medicaid - but will that fly among Trump supporters?
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Video
The Invisible Economy
May 7, 2025
Understanding the forces shaping our digital future.
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Article
Distributional and Macroeconomic Effects of Trump 2.0
May 5, 2025
The most likely outcome of the second Trump administration is a recession and an exacerbation of inequalities, and a further degradation of the living standards of working and middle-class Americans.
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Video
The Intangibles Era
Apr 30, 2025
The future of work is already here—but our social policies are stuck in the past.